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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama
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Baby Teeth.

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Many of you have expressed a wish to obtain early issues of our journal, our single-digit salad days, the ones you might've passed up at the time, instead investing your money in a complex tuna-based pyramid scheme. Well, tuna has dangerous mercury levels, whereas, meanwhile, those old issues are hard to find, and sell for big bucks in the e-commerce marketplace. Most known copies are kept suspended in special hermetic containers, protected by a lot of angled laser beams that summon Gurkhas if interrupted. Until yesterday, if you were interested in any of that classic material—raw, fearless stuff from Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A.M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, Zadie Smith, Sarah Vowell, William T. Vollmann, and many others—you needed to spend months assembling a robust squadron of cunning thieves, thieves who would then probably insist on some kind of time-share rotation arrangement, out of which you would be edged, surreptitiously, before you ever got to read the stories. But now there's a new approach, much simpler and requiring fewer tight leather catsuits: just buy The Better of McSweeney's, a large paperback book that collects some of the best stories and letters from our first 10 issues. It's just less of a hassle for everybody, and until Friday it's $5 off. That's the whole book for $13, which is something like 60 cents per story, which is clearly an economic fluke and Will Not Last.

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OTHER McSWEENEY'S FEATURES:

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Baby Teeth
The Legend of Me By Jack Handey
Responsible Spam By Tom Bartlett
The Author's Letter to His Soon-to-Be Ex-Wife By Luciana Lopez
What I Hope People Are Saying About My Hair at Rock Concerts By Hari Raghavan

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LETTERS TO McSWEENEY'S

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REVIEWS OF NEW FOOD

NEW WHOLPHIN FILM

DAN LIEBERT, VERBAL CARTOONIST

TEDDY WAYNE'S UNPOPULAR PROVERBS

NON-ESSENTIAL MNEMONICS

BITCHSLAP: A COLUMN ABOUT WOMEN AND FIGHTING

DISPATCHES FROM A GUY TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY
TO SELL A SONG IN NASHVILLE


GLOBAL WAR ON BEDBUGS: LETTERS FROM BEDBUG CITY

THE CONFLICTED EXISTENCE OF A FEMALE PORN WRITER

OH MY GAWD: A COLUMN ABOUT A TEENAGER NAVIGATING RELIGION

DISPATCHES FROM MANILA

DISPATCHES FROM AN INDIAN CASINO

THE CONVERGENCES CONTEST

CHRIS WHITE ANSWERS PROFOUND
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS


REPORTS FROM THE PINBALL SCENE

LETTERS FROM THE HELLBOX

NOTES FROM AN AMATEUR SPECTATOR
AT AMATEUR MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTS


B.R. COHEN'S DAYS AT THE MUSEUM

CONVERSATIONS AT A WARTIME CAFÉ

AND HERE'S THE KICKER:
MIKE SACKS'S CONVERSATIONS WITH HUMOR WRITERS


GRANT MUNROE'S CORPORATE FOLKTALES

SARAH WALKER SHOWS YOU HOW

DISPATCHES FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER
WHO IS TRYING TO GROW A MUSTACHE


DISPATCHES FROM A HANGDOG BANKRUPT

DISPATCHES FROM THE CAPITAL

DISPATCHES FROM INDIA

THE WINNER'S CIRCLE WITH ERIC FEEZELL

SEAN MICHAELS LISTENS TO MUSIC IN MONTREAL

SHORT IMAGINED MONOLOGUES

KIDS' LETTERS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

STAINED TEETH: A COLUMN ABOUT WINE

YOUR MONEY, YOUR JOB ... YOUR LIFE, WITH ALISON ROSEN

KEVIN DOLGIN TELLS YOU ABOUT PLACES YOU SHOULD GO IN EUROPE

ABOUT THE WILD THINGS

ABOUT THE CONVALESCENT

ABOUT FEVER CHART

ABOUT GOD SAYS NO

ABOUT ZEITOUN

LETTERS FROM AN EARTH BALL
TO, OR CONCERNING, SEAN HANNITY


E-MAILS SENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FLAG-FOOTBALL TEAM


TRAVELING EUROPE IN STYLE WITH AUCKLAND DINGIROO,
DARK-AGE TOURIST AND CRITIC OF FOOD AND DRINK


JOHN MOE'S POP-SONG CORRESPONDENCES

INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL JOBS

FLIP: A COLUMN ABOUT SKATEBOARDING

OPEN LETTERS TO PEOPLE OR ENTITIES WHO ARE UNLIKELY TO RESPOND

DISPATCHES FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN

MICHAEL IAN BLACK IS A VERY FAMOUS CELEBRITY

DAN KENNEDY SOLVES YOUR PROBLEMS WITH PAPER

STEPHEN ELLIOTT'S POKER REPORT

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